I haven’t done the full length of one but I’ve gone pretty far down one before
Basically you just need to figure out who owns the land and depending on that would depend on if you can legally or not
When I did it though I didn’t check first because I was basically banking on the fact it was near a national forest so if someone stopped me I’d claim (accurately) that I didn’t know it wasn’t a part of the national forest. Of course I’m not sure if it is a part of it or not, but if I did get stopped at least I’d know for sure. I didn’t get stopped but I did have a nice day out there.
Because it’s not needed outside the eastern US. The vast majority of land around me is public and anyone can go out. Right to roam would just give me the right to trample through someone’s property when there’s plenty of public land to go around it with, which is what right to roam usually entails anyways.
This is genuinely a states issue and not something federal.
Walking very close to someone’s home is also illegal with the right to roam. The right to roam just gives everyone the right to walk were they want except in someone’s garden. You can also camp anywhere (gardens excluded of course) for a day (or two can’t remember) without asking anyone for permission.
One kinda surprising thing is that everyone is allowed to enter fenced animal pastures, provided that they aren’t malicious and that they close the gate.
It’s an amazing right that should exist in the entire world.
You don’t seem to understand that my house, my town, and the majority of my state, are massive amounts of public forest. I have every right to wander and camp, as long as I’m not squatting (which is it’s own mess of an issue where what counts “permanently inhabiting” an area), anywhere in that public forest.
Why would my state govt have any reason to enshrine a right that would just make more people trespass because they don’t understand the law? Those that follow that law would then have nothing change.
This is why I say it’s a states’ issue. This won’t be the same across the entire US.
There are people who harvest wild food, yes. I think you need to understand that just our national forests are almost twice the size of the entirety of Sweden. Then there are state forests, national parks, and state parks. Texas alone is 50% larger than Sweden, and Alaska is 3x larger than Texas.
Are you Canadian by any chance? It’s common in Canada to call electrical utilities “hydro” whether there’s water generation or not. In the states they don’t do this as much. At least not in my experience.
Well hello there Washington citizen! WA is the only state in the US to get most of its electricity from hydro.
You’ve got a great river system up there and WA manages to put it all to great use. If the whole country had that kind of river network, perhaps we’d all be running on renewables…
Ah - I didn’t know we were the only ones who do. But yes, it’s nice to have that. I understand we also have the largest ferry system in at least the US, although I think that’s not directly related to the rivers.
Utility poles. Could carry electricity and/or telephone and/or cable tv. In some places it may be home to street lights, sirens, emergency signals, fiber optic cables & junctions/splitters, or other infrastructure.
I see you’re buying into the corporate propaganda. Guess who paid for “studies” to clear power companies from liability.
Here are a few of the conclusions from studies that have discovered a strong link between proximity to power lines and health problems:
Cancer: Exposure to power lines has been connected to cancer. Brain cancer is the most common type, but associations with breast cancer and leukemia have also been claimed;
Tumors: Some studies have shown associations between brain and other cancerous tumors and exposure to power lines.
Miscarriages;
Increased susceptibility to illnesses such as cancer;
Please get your medical advice from doctors and not social media.
Please get your science information fro text books not youtube.
You live in a house that is lined with electrical wires but for some reason they are not an issue to you because no one has told you to be scared of them.
Power lines are more visible in areas with greater poverty, and poverty are risk factors for things like leukemia and miscarriages and depression. No animal trial has shown a link between the type of emissions that power lines give off and any medical issues. Additionally no one has been able to even demonstrate any possible mechanism for action.
But hey go ahead and prove me wrong. Get some rats and do a controlled study.
The area where there are always open camping sites in that one national park because no one wants to sleep under the high voltage lines and get cancer.
It may burn, but the gap is supposed to prevent the flames from leaping to the other side and burning that as well. It is moot if both sides catch fire independently
In Swedish it would be called “kraftledningsgata”, directly translated to English that means “powerline street”, but I already saw a better name for it in the comments “utility corridoor”
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